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Qualitative research methods in human geography
\"Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography is a comprehensive, practical guide to understanding and conducting qualitative research in human geography. Using a unique \"how-to\" approach to focus on the practical application of research in human geography by providing real-world examples of research methods at work in case studies, this fourth edition teaches students how to plan, execute, interpret, and effectively communicate qualitative research. With the inclusion of new Canadian and North American examples throughout, in addition to international and Asia-Pacific examples, the text achieves its goal of providing an in-depth overview of qualitative research methods relevant to human geography that is both readable and accessible for students. Now in its fourth edition, Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography returns with improved readability for undergraduate students, end-of-chapter review exercises, and an appendix of example field notes, making the text much more accessible, current, andrelevant to today's human geography students. Three new chapters have also been added on the topics of feminist and indigenous approaches, visual methods, and new media.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The status of environmental education in promoting students' sustainable environmental management (capabilities) in Asella secondary schools, Oromia, Ethiopia
Environmental education is a multidisciplinary, lifelong learning process that provides students with knowledge, attitudes, skills, and participation to understand the impact of human activities on the environment. This study assessed the status of environmental education in promoting students' sustainable environmental management competencies in Asella secondary schools. A mixed-methods sequential explanatory research design was employed, collecting data from 328 students using questionnaires, 7 geography teachers through interviews, and five classroom observations and school field visits. Data were analyzed quantitatively using descriptive statistics and qualitatively with thematic analysis. The results indicated a gap in teaching approaches in environmental education. Activities and exercises in textbooks and teacher guides lacked practicality. There was a gap in knowledge and skills in teaching education 'in' and 'for' the environment, with more focus on education 'about' the environment. The study also found a lack of interest from teachers and students, a lack of support from the concerned body, and a shortage of time. The study concluded that the status of environmental education in promoting sustainable environmental management competencies was low. The findings recommended comprehensive training for geography teachers on how to implement education 'about', 'in', and 'for' the environment to enhance students' capacity for sustainable environmental management.
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Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process
Feminist research is informed by a history of breaking silences, of demanding that women's voices be heard, recorded and included in wider intellectual genealogies and histories. This has led to an emphasis on voice and speaking out in the research endeavour. Moments of secrecy and silence are less often addressed. This gives rise to a number of questions. What are the silences, secrets, omissions and and political consequences of such moments? What particular dilemmas and constraints do they represent or entail? What are their implications for research praxis? Are such moments always indicative of voicelessness or powerlessness? Or may they also constitute a productive moment in the research encounter? Contributors to this volume were invited to reflect on these questions. The resulting chapters are a fascinating collection of insights into the research process, making an important contribution to theoretical and empirical debates about epistemology, subjectivity and identity in research. Researchers often face difficult dilemmas about who to represent and how, what to omit and what to include. This book explores such questions in an important and timely collection of essays from international scholars.
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The Oxford handbook of archaeological network research
\"Network research has recently been adopted as one of the tools of the trade in archaeology, used to study a wide range of topics: interactions between island communities, movements through urban spaces, visibility in past landscapes, material culture similarity, exchange, and much more. This Handbook is the first authoritative reference work for archaeological network research, featuring current topical trends and covering the archaeological application of network methods and theories. This is elaborately demonstrated through substantive topics and case studies drawn from a breadth of periods and cultures in world archaeology. It highlights and further develops the unique contributions made by archaeological research to network science, especially concerning the development of spatial and material culture network methods and approaches to studying long-term network change. This is the go-to resource for students and scholars wishing to explore how network science can be applied in archaeology through an up-to-date overview of the field.\"--Publisher's website.
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Determinants of households' decision to participate in temporary inter-rural child labor migration: the case of Sekella district, Amhara region, Ethiopia
Child labor migration has become a contemporary issue at both the international and national levels. Like other less-developed nations, Ethiopia has been experiencing inter-rural child migration for labor. The general objective of this study was to identify the determinants of households' involvement in temporary inter-rural child labor migration in Sekella district, Northwestern Ethiopia. A mixed-methods research design was employed for the data collection and analysis. For survey questionnaire, 204 households who participated in child labor migration, and 142 households who did not send child labor migrants were surveyed through simple random sampling. A questionnaire was employed as the principal quantitative data collection method. The results of the study indicate that inadequacy of farmland and size of livestock ownership play a vital role in determining households' choice to engage in temporary inter-rural child labor migration. In addition, the household migration network was also a significant reason behind households' participation in inter-rural child labor migration Furthermore, accessing credit, the size of young dependent household members, and household heads' educational status are found to decrease the chance of households' engagement in child labor migration. It is suggested that realizing the rural land distribution policy may balance the farm land possession of rural households. In addition, offering technical training to rural residents in small-scale industries and non-farm job opportunities, which could create alternative income for rural people, should be emphasized. Finally, the paper argues that child labor migration studies need to analyse both child migrant sending and non-sending households in specific contexts to better formulate rural development policy.
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Spatial Analysis with R
In the five years since the publication of the first edition of
Spatial Analysis: Statistics, Visualization, and Computational Methods
, many new developments have taken shape regarding the implementation of new tools and methods for spatial analysis with R. The use and growth of artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning algorithms with a spatial perspective, and the interdisciplinary use of spatial analysis are all covered in this second edition along with traditional statistical methods and algorithms to provide a concept-based problem-solving learning approach to mastering practical spatial analysis. Spatial Analysis with R: Statistics, Visualization, and Computational Methods, Second Edition, provides a balance between concepts and practicums of spatial statistics with a comprehensive coverage of the most important approaches to understand spatial data, analyze spatial relationships and patterns, and predict spatial processes.
New in the Second Edition:
Includes new practical exercises and worked out examples using R
Presents a wide range of hands-on spatial analysis work tables and lab exercises
All chapters are revised and include new illustrations of different concepts using data from environmental and social sciences
Expanded material on spatiotemporal methods, visual analytics methods, data science, and computational methods
Explains big data, data management, and data mining
This second edition of an established textbook, with new datasets, insights, excellent illustrations, and numerous examples with R, is perfect for senior undergraduate and first year graduate students in geography and the geosciences.
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Towards Relational Sociology
Towards Relational Sociology argues that social worlds comprise networks of interaction and relations. Crossley asserts that relations are lived trajectories of iterated interaction, built up through a history of interaction, but also entailing anticipation of future interaction. In addition, he demonstrates how networks comprise multiple dyadic relations which are mutually transformed through their combination. On this conceptual basis he builds a relational foundation for sociology.
Over the course of the book, three central sociological dichotomies are addressed - individualism/holism, structure/agency and micro/macro – and utilised as a foil against which to construct the case for relational sociology. Through this, Crossley is able to argue that neither individuals nor ‘wholes’ - in the traditional sociological sense - should take precedence in sociology. Rather sociologists should focus upon evolving and dynamic networks of interaction and relations.
The book covers many of the key concepts and concerns of contemporary sociology, including identity, power, exchange and meaning. As such it is an invaluable reference tool for postgraduate students and researchers alike.
Nick Crossley is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK. He has published on a wide range of issues in sociology, most recently on social network analysis.
'...there is no doubt that N. Crossley has made a significant contribution to relational sociology. This is exactly the kind of work we need at this point, if we want to move it forward. Any social scientist interested in relational sociology should read and criticize this book carefully.' -Francois Depelteau, Laurentian University in the Canadian Journal of Sociology vol 36 no 4
'...clear, fresh and ambitious...'
'...elements of the social cosmos underplayed...by Bourdieu are fruitfully brought to the fore. Crossley’s intriguing rereading of Foucault through network lenses, for example, offers a potentially fertile means of investigating the circuits of symbolic power.'
- Will Atkinson , University of Bristol in Sociology, vol 46 no 1
Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Individualism, Holism and Beyond 3. Mapping the Territory 4. From Strategy to Empathy 5. Mind, Meaning and Intersubjectivity 6. I, Me and the Other 7. Exchange, Sociability and Power 8. Structure, Agency and Social Worlds 9. Networks, Conventions and Resources: The Structure(s) of Social Worlds Bibliography Index
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Community mapping based on Milton Santos as a tool for disaster response and risk management in self-built communities: case study of El Pacífico, Medellín, Colombia
This paper aims to showcase the community mapping process that took place in the El Pacífico neighborhood in the city of Medellín, Colombia, which runs alongside the urban-rural border of the high slope of the city's Comuna 8. The geographical and socio-economic challenges that the community has historically faced have come to light throughout the years in the form of geological hazards and disasters that have led to the destruction of several buildings in the neighborhood, threatening the community's permanence.
As these scenarios intensified, the community sought to participate in research projects with both local and international partners to better understand how to improve their disaster risk management practices. URBE Latam, which is one of these experiences, has been working to improve the neighborhood's data generation practices, adopting the territorial definitions proposed by Milton Santos in Espaço e Método, coupled with participatory mapping strategies for disaster risk reduction during a three-year period.
This has resulted in the mapping of El Pacífico and the improvement of the local grassroot organization's territorial management practices. These maps have served as tools for the community's empowerment when dealing with public institutions, as well as for planning and managing their own territorial agendas for the future.
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